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Because Clooney thinks of celebrity as something that is happening to him rather than who he is, he's able to exploit the power of fame for creative control. Since forming the production company Section Eight in 2000 with director Steven Soderbergh, with whom he had worked on Out of Sight, Clooney the producer has used Clooney the actor as barter. He did it to get Warner Bros. to make next year's Good Night and Good Luck, a movie about Edward R. Murrow's battle with Joseph McCarthy that CBS, Murrow's old network, had passed...
...downside to putting on passion projects is that they rarely make any money. Section Eight has made 23 film and television projects in the past four years, but none besides Ocean's Eleven has made a profit. "Steven and I are massively in the hole for Section Eight. Massively. We figured the other day that we are each $850,000 in the hole," Clooney says of the partnership, in which they have agreed to finance any project the other feels strongly about. Nevertheless, it's a relationship that he believes more star-director combos should attempt. "I think...
Truesdell’s website included a section titled “Candidate Comparisons,” a table juxtaposing the experiences of the different candidates. The table labeled Downer as “Seeking Too Much Too Soon,” alleging his lack of experience with the HRC, and Paquette as “Missing in Action,” alleging his many absences at HRC meetings and events...
...this shit, last—semester of Gadfly comes, like all our Friday nights, to an utterly anticlimactic end. Judging by the dearth of e-mail in our inbox (fmgadfly@yahoo.com for those of you meaning to write), you perused this column about as often as your reading for section. Clearly, being a jackass in print is about as appealing as it is anywhere else...